Events in the connected city (part two): claiming space.
A considerable amount of research has been done in recent years to explore the European Capital of Culture initiative. Here's the European Commission's home page for the project. Here's a document setting out 'An international framework of good pr...
Events in the connected city (part one): alt focus.
I'm trying to develop a new driving idea for the PhD, giving it some grounding and possibly a unifying structure: a rallying call, if you will. It's early days, but I'm pondering a shift in focus - from both events and technology to the context in...
VIP Art Fair
via vipartfair.com The internet has the best festivals - arty ones at that. Should you click on the vipartfair.com link above you'll get to the 'VIP Art Fair', which from one angle looks like a shop window for artworks. There's more to it though, ...
RSAnimate: getting that message across.
I'm a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, but I've talked about that before. Why am I a fellow... it's partly to support work like this: The range of expertise that they attract to the RSA events is astonishing at times, tapping into a wealth of ...
Data journalism.
Have I mentioned how much I admire the work of David McCandless and the very idea of 'Information is Beautiful'? You can get the book, a great Christmas present for the more cerebral - or visually stimulated - members of your family. You can follo...
Edinburgh Fringe: constitutionally challenging.
Recently, in the past few weeks, I was informed that I'm a member of the Festival Fringe Society in Edinburgh. There are a couple of hundred members, with varying degrees of contribution to the society and festival it supports, and they are the fo...
Event Technologies workshop: slides.
As flagged a month or two back I recently took part in a workshop organised by Edinburgh Napier, or more specifically my colleagues at the university. The theme was 'event technologies', from planning and logistics software to virtual meeting spac...
Travelogue 13: 'national icons 27.11.02'
This post came at the end of a very rewarding trip through the hot centre of the country. I would recommend a trip to anyone - it's a fair way to go but a truly wondrous landscape. ...there's also some stuff about cricket.
Nuit Blanche: older, not any wiser
via thestar.com Toronto has the best festivals. Perhaps. This article discusses 'Nuit Blanche', which brings a million folk out onto the streets for an all night series of art events and what have you. It's hard to see from the article whether thi...
The outsourcing of a blog post - reading list attached.
My girlfriend has a couple of degrees under her belt and occasionally says she hadn't realised how much time lecturers put into planning, preparing and administering their courses - which is very kind of her, sweet really! Particularly so at times...